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WILLIAM MARLOW, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR '.l'() STANDARD ll.l\llT'l.`ING r'ltlIllLL- i ,COMPANY, A CORIORATION OF NEW YORK.

UNION SUIT.

Specification. of Letters Patent.4

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- Application filed February 27, 1913. Serial No. 751,015.

To all fui/om it may concern le it known that Lil/'intimi Manilow, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, State of New York, have invented Certain new and useful Improvements in Union Suits, of which. 4the following is a description.

My invention relates to union suits and is particularly applicable to knitted garments, of which the basis`is a tube ol knitted material, such as formed upon the, ordinaryy circular knitting machine, and has tor its object the formation of a bifurcated gab ment from sueh a tube with the least possible number ot' seams and with the least 'waste of material.

My improve( garment dispenses entirely with horizontal seams, which are annoying;` to the wearer and which are likely to open, and entirely eliminates gussets and other small pieces, the seams attaching whieh to the main portions of the garment are par tieularly likely to cause discomfort and to rip.

The method used in making my improved garment is sueh that a minimum amount of material is required, and it can be formed in a much shorter time and by much less skilled labor and with much less waste than the gai`- ments manufactured heretofore.

ln the drawings which accompany this specification, Figure l is a side view oi. my improved union suit, and Fie'. 2 a section thereot` on the line 2-2 of Fig. l. Figs. 3 and 4 are diagrammatic views showing the method of manufacture and the general out line of the parts which make up the cour lileted suit.

Starting-with a tube of material, the proeess of manufacture is as follows: Cuttings are made at `l1 to form the. Sleeves und at 2 to torni the neek. The tube is then slit longitudinally as at 3, to a point about at the waistl ol the garment thustoi-inline' tuo bil'uri'aleil portions Al--l. 'Vlie biilnrzmd portions l---eltn'e then fan-mul apart and Iwo triangg'ular pieces 5 are inserled therein, ma shown in Fig. l.. The lowirrmost portion of the triangular nous :7i are thru slit as at (i. The ,garment is then .wenn together by sewing theouler inlet-sd@ if to the ellgns'ot" the slit 53, and by sil-wing the rorrvspf.aiding( edges ol the slits l in ibo two trianojidar pier-es 5, together. l'hrre are, tlna'rtrne, oniy sin" seams in the garment, bring Hennie; {see Fig". l) S, 9, l() und ll, and two seams on the reversi-0 side willi-l1 rorrespond to the two seams S and t). It will thus he seen thai all of the seams are longitudinally dispo inthe garment and that a very small numhrr thereof are required to hold it togotlwr.

"While l have only shown one lorm my invention may take, it is obvious it may` talee others without departing.; 'from the ,apirit o' my invention, and I, therefore, (lo not Illa-1in: to confine myself by the precise vlorln :drown and described.

What I claim and desire to sornre by l ters Patent A bifureail'ed garment comprising` a, tube of fabric having itu front and bari; siii lo the waist line and two triangular pieren, tin' side edges of each tri:mg -ulnr piece wrox-ell lo the edges of thel iront and bouk slits resina: tively of the tube, eaeh triangular biere .fait a short distance on the vertical renter eine from the bottom, and the edges ot the ri ot' one piece serured to the eorrecnondingr edges of the other piene.

ln witness whereoit' l have hereunto set my band in the presence of two witnes. this Q-llth day of February, l9`l3- W llll'llnlvt lli )i 'it 'i i( NV.

lVitnrsses:

TVM/ren S. Jonica, ll'hnoanu'r htwliv'rrun, 

